Reverend Conrad Bennette Tillard Sr. is an American clergyman (faith leader), and civil rights leader in the African-American consciousness movement tradition. He is an author, educator, youth advocate, community activist, and public speaker, born on September 15, 1964 in St. Louis, Missouri, he grew up in Washington DC and Atlanta, Ga.,.Today, he is the Senior Minister of Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church, a 120 year congregation located in the historic Ditmas Park section of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The Church is affiliated with the National Association of Congregational Christians Churches. Tillard is also and Adjunct Professor in the Black Studies Department at The City College of New York, where he teaches on Harlem, Hip Hop and the Black Power Movement. He is the Immediate past Sr. Minister, of the Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NY. Prior to that, he was the Interim Senior Minister, at the Eliot Congregational Church in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. He is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA, The American Baptist Church, the United Church of Christ, and the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches. Licensed to preach and ordained at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, he has been a community activist for over 30 years.